I despise the disjointed ai voice menards ads

all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable—they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

One of the most charming things about being an academic was that everyone had their own unique favorite Moby-Dick chapter, so now whenever I see a quote I can think "ah, z's favorite"

What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish

"September," Joanne Kyger (1971?)

Today is La fête de l'opinion the 4th of Sansculottides in the year 233. Sansculottides is the month of complementary days. Today we celebrate conviction.#JacobinDay More information on conviction

I had no idea that the (wicked) doctrine of qualified immunity had its roots in SCOTUS’s rejection of claims against police filed in response to the arrest of fifteen Episcopal priests who desegregated a bus station in Jackson in 1966.

If you want to live in a country that still has a few wild places, take a second to add your name before the federal comment period ends tomorrow act.wilderness.org/a/roadlessre...

Have the children killed while praying here in Minneapolis considered becoming racist podcasters? I'm told it's up to you to make your cause palatable for the wider public

Beyond tired of poems whose moral is "I deserve to take care of myself more 💯"

Today is Nonidi the 29th of Fructidor in the year 233. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate the sweet chestnut.#JacobinDay More information on the sweet chestnut

Started weeping when I read this Koufax quote about his perfect game

September is a perfect month for playing Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays nonstop

Would that we all might die in a manner so consistent with how we live and what we believe!

Trump's cuts - to education, broadcasting, natural resource management, even health - are designed to drive liberals out of rural areas to create a permanent electoral fiefdom of the uninformed

Really excellent poem by Nam Le (2024)

Productivity up 50% today. As always, I owe it all to 80s/early-90s jazz fusion

Remember when they used to give you an mp3 download when you bought the $30 vinyl

Donald Trump just passed the largest transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich in history and the tech oligarchs are now lining up to praise him.   The greed of the billionaire class knows no bounds. 🎥: Washington Post

The title is generous: based on these numbers, 75% of "farms" aren't farms, yet the rest of us working real jobs have to pay continual homage share.google/TpFjjryPNq2W...

Were I the wind, I’d blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world.

Fight without ceasing to defend, expand, deepen your humanity

Didn't know that poetry magazine published quotes from highschool salutatorian speeches

Something seems uniquely american about serving a big stein of water with a sippy straw (MUST be plastic)

Don't need to click to know the answer for every contemporary poet is "line break." One wishes there were a bit more variety in craft, but that's what MFAworld gets you

America now

Almost got turned into goo on the bike today by an illegal turn from a 20-something white chick in an oversized suv with a "Texas tech alum <3" decal @presidenttrumpsir when will you crack down on the real criminal migrants?

they are not shy about this at all claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-law-that...

Banger from li-young lee

It’s weird that we have an entire term called the “war on Christianity” but it’s only applied to the sexy green M&M and not something that both materially harms Christian churches and offends the theological background of them

With 1 or 2 exceptions, every steven king plot I've ever heard described is punishingly boring

there is a fundamental, near immutable structural barrier for law making in the united states that makes juggling a simple tax code hack that solves child poverty nearly impossible whereas a republican can walk into office and summon a secret police army to terrorize his political enemies

It's not 2013 anymore. Why are we still seeing those dumbass "facial hair silhouette" logos

See them

I would only ever slightly embellish a band, personally

Good point, we should defund whoever is responsible for this. (Aide whispers to me from offscreen.) The police you say?

Sometimes art podcasts can be a great spark for writing, and sometimes they are so insufferable that you don't want to write ever again

Trying to think of a good author whose politics comes through their work with whom I *do* agree. Much harder. Levertov? Zola?

Haven't been in the backcountry for over a month now and starting to get frazzled

Law was never meant for us search.app/Xm7SQ

We desperately need a lush++ adaptation of Fortunata y Jacinta a la Il Leopardo

I don’t know why this incenses me as much as it does, but it does: we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts *right now*. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space

Larry Eigner, "From the Sustaining Air"

The top 1% now owns more than $54 trillion in wealth. That’s 468 times more than the bottom 50%. One man — Elon Musk — owns more than the bottom half COMBINED. This is what I mean when I talk about oligarchy.

Holy shit, "firestorm" is an understatement Carlos Correa Jhoan Duran Griffin Jax Louis Varland Brock Stewart Willi Castro Harrison Bader Chris Paddack Danny Coulombe Ty France

Wish my grandma was still here to trash talk twins management with. Happy firesale day to those whole celebrate!

Probably the best poem in the latest issue of Poetry mag, courtesy Joanna Klink

Just had a minor tantrum upon realizing that "black earth" is one of the poems Marianne Moore excluded from her complete poems